Capstone in Applied Practice II Methods

Capstone in Applied Practice II

Methods: Revision of Section 2

This week, you will submit a revision of Section 2 of your Methods section on the basis of feedback received from your instructor. Remember that Section 2 should include the following information:

Instruments: What instruments will you use? What evidence or research exists for the instruments? Have they been determined to be valid or reliable? If so, for what groups? If you are using an instrument or tool that has not been well studied, ensure that you provide evidence to justify its use in your project.

Data Collection: Are there any other points of data that you will be collecting that have not previously been mentioned? The emphasis in this section should be on fully describing specifically what data you will be using in your study. Part of the purpose of doing this is to detect flaws in the plan before they become problems in the research.

Data Analysis Plan: How will you analyze your data? This section should explain in some detail how you will manipulate the data that you assembled to get at the information that you will use to answer your question. When describing statistical tests, ensure that you have specified the appropriate information, such as the significance level and type of confidence interval (one- or two sided). Additionally, describe what meaning the output of any statistical tests will help answer and how it relates to your population/patient, intervention, comparison, outcome, and time (PICOT)/clinical problem.